A Photography and Travel Blog by Jamie Chan

>Hello passing days

I am really proud of this of all the four assignments I did but my lecturer does not like it one bit T_T

I had a pretty epic Friday. as usual

Anyways, the dinner was good:3 Salmon as the main course with wine is most welcomed.

I had been pretty busy this week given that I just started work and my pixel collage ideas are going nowhere, I am tired.

I just took a look at the past 300+ post I had on this blog. I realized that each and every post was actually getting longer and longer! is my life any happier?

Ah wells the rest of the boring stuff shall go to the Alice Diary:(

Lets talk about the beautiful things in my life right now!

You guys know how obsessed I am with eyes in general. Reading eyes is kind of like a very bad habit of mine so the next part will be a little freaky but I shall let the pictures speak for itself(:

A bit of background information would be that there are about 5 basic groups of eyes. Each has their own range and ability to reflect light and bring the doll to life. Each have their own unique price tag and as always, this hobby is limited to how much you have in your bank account(:

For every doll owner, their first few pair of eyes would almost always be acrylic.

From left to right:

12mm melted grey acrylics (Julia’s default)

16mm blue acrylic (Kiyomi’s default)

16mm grey black acrylic (Juliet’s default)

Total cost: Around 10USD

Acrylics are nice and cheap but they are after all, acrylics can’t really pull off the depth I want to make a doll ‘look into your soul’

This is where crystal acrylic comes into the picture to give the eyes a little more clarity.

From top to bottom right:

16mm Cobalt blue crystal acrylics (Chiriko’s default)

14mm Blue grey crystal acrylic (Chiriko’s character pair)

16mm blue crystal acrylic (brand new >.> )

Total cost: Around 25USD

I really like crystal acrylics. In fact, I would rather get crystal acrylics than normal acrylics as with a little bit of DI, they can look pretty amazing in images.

Crystal acrylics are sparkly and nice but they do not reflect light as nicely as Glass.

Glass eyes are pretty but they are not as realistic as silicon. These two silicons are my first pair of silicon eyes and I love the depth they give to my girls! Gorgeous gorgeous pairs<3

From top to bottom:

17mm Mystic world Afghan eyes

15mm Mystic World German eyes

Total cost: Around 50USD

Silicon gives a lot of depth but sucks at capturing and reflecting light.

Although they are amazingly realistic in a doll, one of their bad points would be that they attract dust like crazy>.>

Next up is the most expensive one out of the 5 groups of eyes.

Yessu. Its Urethane 8D

From top to bottom:

16mm Enchanted doll black Urethane (Kiyomi’s Chracter pair)

16mm Enchanted doll Blue Urethane

Total cost: Around 110USD

Just by looking at the amount of light reflected, you know that urethane beats all other kinds of eyes hands down. The depth they give to a doll is so beautiful! Even in the black pair, you can actually see color reflected when you look really closely! Urethane looks gorgeous in and out of images without any DI done and they are so beautiful! Well given the price tag, it better be beautiful T_T

Yea. I am pretty obsessed with blue eyes as well. I have 7 pairs of blue eyes which is half of my ‘eye collection’ and at least one from each category(:

Yessu. I have 13 pairs of eyes and three girls(:

Hope you enjoyed what my random mind churned out at 3.26am in the morning.